.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 244 136
Rank change year-on-year -77 -108 -23
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 334 591 1,084
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.64% 1.20% 2.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.38% 5.61% 9.39%
Number of salaries quoted 310 421 1,028
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,063 £47,500 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,250 £91,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,210 10,537 11,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.92% 21.44% 25.07%
Number of salaries quoted 4,775 6,214 9,674
10th Percentile £35,854 £40,159 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,750 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 3 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +33 111 £75,000 +4.17% 80
North of England -34 89 £55,000 - 68
North West +9 54 £55,000 -4.35% 44
South East -42 49 £57,500 +6.48% 92
Midlands -19 41 £65,000 +23.81% 56
East Midlands -18 28 £65,000 +26.83% 35
South West +7 27 £52,500 -23.64% 27
Yorkshire -35 24 £40,000 -20.00% 17
West Midlands +1 13 £57,500 +9.52% 20
North East -3 11 £52,500 +16.67% 7
East of England -17 11 £60,000 +20.00% 34
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (1.50%) Confluence
1 5 (1.50%) IIS
2 3 (0.90%) CMS
3 2 (0.60%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.30%) Kentico
4 1 (0.30%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.60%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 220 (65.87%) Azure
2 86 (25.75%) AWS
3 53 (15.87%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (11.68%) Serverless
5 28 (8.38%) GitHub
6 19 (5.69%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (5.39%) Power Platform
8 17 (5.09%) Azure Service Bus
8 17 (5.09%) SaaS
9 15 (4.49%) Azure Functions
10 14 (4.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (4.19%) Amazon S3
10 14 (4.19%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (4.19%) AWS Step Functions
11 13 (3.89%) Amazon EventBridge
11 13 (3.89%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (3.89%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (2.99%) Azure AKS
12 10 (2.99%) Azure App Service
13 9 (2.69%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.20%) Internet
2 2 (0.60%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (37.72%) SQL Server
2 44 (13.17%) MongoDB
3 41 (12.28%) Azure SQL Database
4 33 (9.88%) NoSQL
5 26 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (5.39%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (4.19%) MySQL
8 13 (3.89%) DynamoDB
8 13 (3.89%) Relational Database
9 8 (2.40%) Power BI
10 6 (1.80%) NonStop SQL
10 6 (1.80%) Redis
10 6 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.90%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.30%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.30%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 59 (17.66%) Git
2 12 (3.59%) JIRA
2 12 (3.59%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.80%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.80%) NUnit
4 5 (1.50%) MSTest
5 4 (1.20%) GitLab
6 3 (0.90%) JMeter
6 3 (0.90%) Postman
6 3 (0.90%) Selenium
6 3 (0.90%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.60%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.30%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.30%) Sourcetree
8 1 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.30%) Vite
8 1 (0.30%) webpack
General
1 42 (12.57%) Finance
2 38 (11.38%) Social Skills
3 16 (4.79%) Law
4 13 (3.89%) Public Sector
5 10 (2.99%) Retail
6 9 (2.69%) Games
6 9 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.40%) Legal
8 6 (1.80%) Advertising
9 5 (1.50%) Front Office
10 4 (1.20%) Banking
11 3 (0.90%) Back Office
11 3 (0.90%) Marketing
11 3 (0.90%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.60%) Local Government
12 2 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.30%) Automotive
13 1 (0.30%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 249 (74.55%) Developer
2 129 (38.62%) .NET Developer
3 86 (25.75%) Senior
4 75 (22.46%) Software Developer
5 61 (18.26%) C# Developer
6 58 (17.37%) Senior Developer
7 45 (13.47%) Full-Stack Developer
8 36 (10.78%) Software Engineer
9 33 (9.88%) Lead
10 25 (7.49%) C# .NET Developer
11 24 (7.19%) Senior .NET Developer
12 21 (6.29%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
12 21 (6.29%) Senior C# Developer
13 19 (5.69%) C# Software Developer
14 18 (5.39%) .NET Software Engineer
14 18 (5.39%) Lead Developer
14 18 (5.39%) React Developer
14 18 (5.39%) Senior Software Developer
15 16 (4.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 16 (4.79%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 334 (100.00%) .NET
2 131 (39.22%) ASP.NET
3 100 (29.94%) React
4 88 (26.35%) .NET Framework
5 83 (24.85%) AngularJS
6 68 (20.36%) RESTful
7 66 (19.76%) HTML
8 60 (17.96%) Entity Framework
9 58 (17.37%) CSS
10 55 (16.47%) ASP.NET MVC
11 51 (15.27%) ASP.NET Web API
12 47 (14.07%) Blazor
13 37 (11.08%) Vue
14 35 (10.48%) Node.js
15 32 (9.58%) ASP.NET Core
16 30 (8.98%) HTML5
17 25 (7.49%) REST
18 17 (5.09%) CSS3
19 15 (4.49%) LINQ
20 13 (3.89%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 37 (11.08%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.49%) Greenfield Project
3 13 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.59%) AI Agents
5 8 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.10%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 6 (1.80%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (1.80%) Digital TV
7 6 (1.80%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.50%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.50%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.20%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.90%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.90%) Sports Betting
10 3 (0.90%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.60%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.90%) Windows
2 2 (0.60%) Linux
3 1 (0.30%) VMS
3 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (43.41%) Agile
2 130 (38.92%) Full-Stack Development
3 111 (33.23%) Microservices
4 107 (32.04%) CI/CD
5 86 (25.75%) DevOps
6 85 (25.45%) Software Engineering
7 77 (23.05%) MVC
8 50 (14.97%) Containerisation
9 48 (14.37%) Clean Code
10 46 (13.77%) Scrum
11 44 (13.17%) Continuous Improvement
12 42 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
13 39 (11.68%) TDD
14 37 (11.08%) SDLC
15 31 (9.28%) Mentoring
16 30 (8.98%) Infrastructure as Code
17 26 (7.78%) BDD
17 26 (7.78%) OO
18 25 (7.49%) Kanban
19 24 (7.19%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 289 (86.53%) C#
2 137 (41.02%) SQL
3 125 (37.43%) JavaScript
4 60 (17.96%) TypeScript
5 23 (6.89%) Python
6 10 (2.99%) Rust
7 9 (2.69%) T-SQL
8 7 (2.10%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.50%) Java
10 4 (1.20%) Bicep
11 3 (0.90%) Bash
11 3 (0.90%) Erlang
11 3 (0.90%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.60%) XAML
13 1 (0.30%) C++
13 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 34 (10.18%) Degree
2 13 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (3.29%) AWS Certification
3 11 (3.29%) AWS Certified Developer
4 10 (2.99%) Security Cleared
5 8 (2.40%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.50%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.20%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.69%) QA
2 9 (2.69%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.10%) WCAG
4 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.30%) GDPR
4 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 68 (20.36%) Docker
2 2 (0.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (12.28%) Kubernetes
2 33 (9.88%) Terraform
3 2 (0.60%) Ansible
4 1 (0.30%) Grafana
Vendors
1 104 (31.14%) Microsoft
2 6 (1.80%) Facebook
2 6 (1.80%) YouTube
3 4 (1.20%) Dynatrace
4 3 (0.90%) Databricks
4 3 (0.90%) Google
5 2 (0.60%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (0.60%) Foundry
5 2 (0.60%) ION Trading
5 2 (0.60%) Oracle
6 1 (0.30%) IBM
6 1 (0.30%) IONA
6 1 (0.30%) Okta
6 1 (0.30%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.30%) ServiceNow